Working with Photoshop: Sharpening without Sharpen Filter

[bohemianscribe]

There just isn't enough tutorials dealing with how people use photoshop for Sims 2. Whilst this is merely my way of doing things, somewhere out there, maybe someone will find a use for this tutorial.

+ Basic Knowledge of Photoshop Required +

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[bohemianscribe]

You're welcome! Hopefully it's easy enough to follow. It's actually the first proper tutorial I've written.

[goodbye_sun]

This shows how lazy I am with my images by just adjusting the contrast and moving on, but thanks for this, sharpening can make things look so flat and over processed, but this is certainly much more subtle and you don't loose the depth at all.

[bohemianscribe]

It was a learning curve for me too! I learned that same skins don't reflect coloured as well as others. *sigh* My search for that all elusive perfect skin continues with much mumbling and shaking of the head.

[simply_pinned]

Sims2 photoshop related tutorial!
I wish more people would post something like this!
As much as I light to experiment with different lights directly in game (you never get the perfect shadow just editing), Photoshop layering is kind of addictive... I must say I tend to over process my images, but I really can't seem to stop.

[bohemianscribe]

Well, whatever you are doing - your images really "zing". You know how much I adore them!

I am going to revert back to my old Enayla defaults for future tutorials though. I noticed they seem to really catch the ingame lights better than the ones I was using. And they seem to do better during image editing too!

Once I play around a bit more with different colours, hopefully I can try and write more although my knowledge at best is very basic. Somehow, larger images don't want to work as well as icons.

[starling_1]

Contemplating doing this with the ridiculous number of shots I use for each piece...

But I know I need to do it. Thank you so, so much. Whenever I get into Photoshop, it's like staring at the controls for a star ship. While holding a license to drive a tricycle.

Copied and saved everything here. Again, thank you.

[bohemianscribe]

That's the only thing that gets me - if I have too many shots (although my idea of too many is 10+ and the most shots I've had for one 'chapter' is about 18-20). I hate dealing with editing shots a lot of the time so I keep my numbers down to keep me sane! Or because I use Gadwin, 99% of the time, the original works well enough without any touch up other than cropping the image.

You're very welcome. I know the feeling. I felt the same when I first got photoshop. I still don't know a lot, only the basics. I know enough to do whatever I need with image manipulation.

Just poking in and commenting

[maonao]

There really aren't many tutorials out there for photoshop/etc involving The Sims 2 that don't rinse and repeat the Sims2Community method. I have a precise method I follow for WoS, but it isn't anything terribly impressive and it's so random that I've had trouble putting it to tutorial form.

It was very nice of you to take the time to do this. I, too, abuse layers like no one's business. A normal WoS screen can have five layers at minimum, hahaha. I have to tweak ones with differing lighting, too. I think that's the most time-consuming part of doing pictures.